Winds of up to 220 km/h have devastated this French overseas territory. On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would travel to the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte and praised “the responsiveness of all state services” in addressing the disaster caused by Cyclone Chido. RELATED: Mayotte Devastated by Cyclone Chido: Humanitarian Aid Is […]

This overseas department has at least 100,000 precarious homes, most of which have been destroyed. On Sunday, the French Government’s delegate in the Mayotte department, François-Xavier Bieuville, estimated that Cyclone Chido has “undoubtedly caused several hundred deaths” in the Chido archipelago, located in the Indian Ocean. RELATED: Mexican State of Nuevo Leon Declares a State […]

There are approximately 18,000 people and 8,100 homes and businesses under evacuation orders or warnings. As of Tuesday afternoon, a large wildfire in Malibu in Southern California has grown to over 2,700 acres (10.9 square kilometers), prompting evacuations due to dangerous fire conditions. The fire, codenamed Franklin Fire, was reported Monday night. It started near […]

The Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection declared Lemnos and Rhodes in a state of emergency. On Monday, Greek authorities declared a state of emergency on two Aegean islands as a powerful weather system, named Bora, continued to wreak havoc across the country. The storm, which began on Friday, has already claimed three lives […]

The lawsuit accuses the companies of having withheld what they knew about the consequences of fossil fuel use since the 1960s. Maine has become the latest U.S. state to sue oil and gas companies over climate change, claiming that Exxon Mobil, Shell, Chevron and other giants waged a decades-long campaign to conceal the effects of […]

Power outages were reported in parts of England and Wales over the weekend. Over the weekend, strong winds, heavy rain, and flooding brought by Storm Bert caused travel disruption and power outages across the United Kingdom, where it left three men dead. RELATED: Tropical Storm Sara Leaves Four Dead Between Honduras and Nicaragua These fatalities […]

The agreements did not address the magnitude of the challenges involved in fighting global warming. On Sunday, the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) culminated in Azerbaijan by announcing a package of climate agreements. RELATED: COP29 Unlocks International Carbon Markets The agreements included […]

Trading of carbon credits incentivates countries to reduce emissions and invest in climate-friendly projects. On Saturday, the presidency of the 29th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP29) announced that it has concluded negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, enabling cross-border carbon trading […]

The Azerbaijani proposal is ‘neither sufficient, nor big, nor fast, nor good,’ said Friederike Roder. On Friday, the Azerbaijani presidency of COP29 proposed that wealthy countries contribute US$250 billion annually by 2035 to finance climate action in developing countries RELATED: COP29: Venezuelan Government Strengthens Strategies for the Generation of Clean Energy in the Country While […]

Turkish authorities have denied Israel permission for its president, Isaac Herzog, to fly over Turkish airspace to attend the UN climate conference COP29 in Azerbaijani capital Baku. RELATED: Gaza Strip: Death Toll Rises to 43,764 Anadolu Ajansi, a Turkiye’s state news agency reported, citing “official” sources, that the Israeli authorities had requested permission for Herzog’s […]